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by Bill McCleery, The Indianapolis Star

by Bill McCleery, The Indianapolis Star

INDIANAPOLIS -- A 16-year-old boy apparently shot a cab driver for the thrill of it, an Indianapolis police report indicates.

The boy and an 18-year-old man each shot Indianapolis Yellow Cab driver Ricardo White shortly before 11 p.m. Monday, according to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department report. Shortly after the pair got into the cab, the driver was asked to stop.

The 16-year-old, one officer believed, "allegedly shot another man in cold blood without provocation, seemingly for the thrill of killing," the police report says.

There were no demands for money, and nothing was stolen, police said.

The police report does not indicate whether the 16-year-old or the 18-year-old fired first. The driver was shot in his face and torso and was reported to be in serious condition Wednesday.

Police officers with a warrant went to an Indianapolis house at about 2 a.m. Wednesday and arrested the 16-year-old, who initially tried to hide but then surrendered without a struggle.

Four guns were seized during a search of the home, police said.

The 18-year-old, identified as Landon Tompkins, was arrested shortly before 2 p.m. Wednesday when police found a stolen vehicle he was in.

Tompkins and the 16-year-old face preliminary charges of attempted murder, police said. Tompkins also faces preliminary charges of theft, auto theft and resisting law enforcement, according to an IMPD report.

Yellow Cab officials are grateful to community members for providing information to police that aided the investigation, said Tim Neville, the company's operations manager in Indianapolis.

IMPD had released photos of the two suspects taken by a camera inside the taxi and sought the public's help in identifying the pair. Tips led to the first arrest, IMPD Sgt. Linda Jackson said.

Yellow Cab also offered a $10,000 reward in the case.

"Even though Indianapolis is a major city," Neville said, "it seems like we all become an extended family when something like this happens."